Man swimming in Orange bayou dies in apparent alligator attack

By Lomi Kriel, Houston Chronicle

July 3, 2015Updated: July 3, 2015 5:40pm

Photo: Jake Daniels / Jake Daniels/The Enterprise

Lt. James Davis looks off the dock at Burkart's Marina on Friday. Tommie Woodward, 28, was attacked and killed by an alligator while swimming in Adams Bayou at Burkart's Marina early Friday morning. The incident was the first fatal attack by an alligator in Texas in about 200 years.
Photo taken Friday 7/3/15
Jake Daniels/The Enterprise

Lt. James Davis looks off the dock at Burkart's Marina on Friday....

HOUSTON — A 28-year-old man died early Friday in a presumed alligator attack in Orange, just outside Beaumont, police said.

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